Thursday 12 February 2009

Look who I met today!!!!!

Yayy! Finally I got to meet the guru of all things inky :-) How come Tim Holtz came all the way to little old North Yorkshire in little old England?! Who cares! I'm very glad he did. Can you see the fab tag he's doing in the pic with distress inks and a mask? Really, I learned a lot today and I have come home feeling all inspired and ready to start sponging my inks. And it's half term next week too so I'll even have a little time. The things that man can do with alcohol inks is amazing. He just squirts a few bits on his craft mat and swooshes the card over and makes a totally fab background. I'm gonna give it a go - watch this space.............
Shall I tell you something? Tim Holtz does not clean his stamps! Just how liberating is that? He even thinks they stamp better if you don't clean them - like you need an excuse. He just gives them a wipe down the front of his Ranger apron and then carries on inking. I'm throwing away my stamp cleaner right now and investing in an apron, or as my friend commented today - just wear black trousers ha ha ha. Yeah, that's you 'Mucky Pup' - now we know where you got your name :-)
The down side of meeting Tim is that the list of things I NEED is getting longer. I need every one of his new stamp sets for a start and I think I NEED one of those little dinky swing around things to hand your blending tools on, but I haven't got any blending tools either so I'd need those too. And after today I also realised I NEED grungeboard and lots of it.
Ah well, back to the real world...... byee

10 comments:

  1. How cool is that, I hope Tim comes down under one day so we can also see him in the flesh ... or maybe I need to go to the USA to see him!! I have the Ranger craft mat, alcohol inks, blending tool & solution and haven't used them since I bought them ... might have to get mine out too. Hope you're well and look forward to seeing what you create.

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  2. Oh what a lucky girl you are, Kate! I would give anything to be able to meet Tim Holtz!!! I'm so glad you had that opportunity. Go buy all the supplies you need and don't feel guilty. When you do wonderful artwork like you do, you deserve to work with whatever your little heart desires :o) Thanks for sharing your adventure with us!!!

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  3. How lucky!I wish I could have seen him....love that guy!

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  4. Ooooh how fab.
    I am hoping to meet him at the trade show I am attending this weekend.....knowing my luck he will be on his coffee break when I visit the stand he's on....lol!!!

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  5. how cool is tim, hihi! great guy huh! i had three full days of tim and ranger in the netherlands and loved every minute! tim is so good! whip over to my blog for pics of me and the master in disscusion hihi!
    glad yoy finally got to meet hin! xxx tanya

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  6. You gave away my sectet! At AFTH on Friday the only talk was about Tim and his visit. Had a fab day messing about with alcohol inks with Dyan, apart from certain things that you know about! Amazed that I managed to keep my scissors under control....Looking forward to half tern and the opportunity to have some fabby dabby time. If nothing elae want to do some canvases for my daughter's room and make some curtains.........

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  7. For someone who is usually a stickler for spelling and punctuation, that was a pretty shabby blog - it must be because I am having such a romantic Valentine's night, hubby is asleep in front of q of sport snd i have one hand in a jug of iced water after a nasty burn incident...

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  8. how cool for you! I would love the chance to meet him someday, too. (I can't wait to see the journal page you make with his autograph!)

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  9. youre so lucky to meet him.i was going on holiday to america the day he was at harrogate.i was GUTTED!!LOL
    glad you had a good day

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  10. I am green now not with ink with envy, lucky lucky you I would love to meet or just watch him work. I have the DVD's but in the flesh would be so much better :-) What did we do before Grungeboard? Wonderful stuff I use it all the time can't wait for my Grungepaper to arrive its taking so long :-( Great Blog tfs xxx

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